Jacqueline Carter

Ngāti Awa

1974 -

She has also published under 'Jacq Carter and Jacqs Carter) is Ngāi Tūkairangi of Ngāi Te Rangi on her paternal grandfather's side and Te Patuwai and Ngāi te Hapū of Ngāti Awa and Waitaha on her paternal grandmother's side. She is also of English, Irish, and Scottish descent through both of these grandparents and her mother. She started writing poetry in her teens while at Epsom Girls' Grammar School, after a visit by Paki Cherrington, and started composing waiata when she was little. Her poetry jhas been published in various anthologies, including Robert Sullivan, Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri (eds.) Whetū Moana (Auckland University Press, 2002) and its sequel Mauri Ola (Auckland University Press, 2010), as well as all editions of Anton Blank's Ora Nui.'

Biographical sources

  • Growing Up Māori. Ed. Witi Ihimaera. Auckland, N.Z.: Tandem Press, 1998. 253.
  • Te Awa o Kupu. Eds. Vaughan Rapatahana & Kiri Piahana-Wong. New Zealand: Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2023. 396.

    Biography

  • "None Of Us Is What Out Tupuna Were: When ‘Growing Up Pākeha’ is ‘Growing Up Māori’." Growing Up Māori. Ed. Witi Ihimaera. Auckland, N.Z.: Tandem Press, 1998. 253-266.

  • Poetry

  • "Identity Crisis." Growing Up Māori. Ed. Witi Ihimaera. Auckland, N.Z.: Tandem Press, 1998. 266-7.
  • "Colour." Growing Up Māori. Ed. Witi Ihimaera. Auckland, N.Z.: Tandem Press, 1998. 267.
  • "None Of Us Is What Our Tupuna Were." Growing Up Māori. Ed. Witi Ihimaera. Auckland, N.Z.: Tandem Press, 1998. 267.
  • "At The End Of Our Road." Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland UP, 2003: 39.
  • "Comparatively Speaking, There Is No Struggle." Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland UP, 2003: 40-41.
  • "Me Aro Koe Ki Te Hā o Hineahuone!" Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland UP, 2003. 41-42.
  • "E Tu, E Tu, Tānemahuta!" Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland UP, 2003. 42.
  • "For A Tipuna Wahine." Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland UP, 2003. 42-43.
  • "Aroha." Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland UP, 2003: 43-44.
  • "Pōwhiri." Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland UP, 2003. 45.
  • "I Couldn’t Handle." Trout (Auckland, N.Z.) [Online] 11 2003. http://www.trout.auckland.ac.nz/journal/11/11_2.html
  • "Matariki." http://www.trout.auckland.ac.nz/journal/11/11_3.html
  • "Tangi." http://www.trout.auckland.ac.nz/journal/11/11_4.html
  • "Poem for Te Whaiti (-nui-a-Toi Te Te Reke." http://www.trout.auckland.ac.nz/journal/11/11_5.html
  • I couldn't handle. Trout (2003).
  • "At the end of our road." Whetū moana : contemporary Polynesian poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2003.
  • "Comparatively speaking, there is no struggle." Whetū moana : contemporary Polynesian poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2003.
  • ""Me aro koe ki te hā o Hineahuone!." Whetū moana : contemporary Polynesian poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2003.
  • " E tū, e tū, e tū, Tānemahuta!" Whetū moana : contemporary Polynesian poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press, 2003.
  • " For a tipuna wahine." Whetū moana : contemporary Polynesian poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2003.
  • "Aroha." Whetū moana : contemporary Polynesian poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2003.
  • "Pōwhiri ." Whetū moana : contemporary Polynesian poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2003.
  • Four poems. Ora nui, 1 (2012): 24-27.
  • "If only for another legendary hero." Ora nui, 1 (2014): 28-30.
  • Puna wai kōrero : an anthology of Māori poetry in English. Ed. Robert Sullivan and Reina Whaitiri. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press, 2014.
  • "Today I met a fire." Ora nui, 1 (2014): 28-30.
  • "It must be time to accept the inevitable." Ora nui, 1 (2014): 28-30.
  • Our tūpuna remain. Te Rito o te Harakeke - A collection of writing for Ihumātao. Rangatahi o te Pene, 2019. Rpt. in Te Awa o Kupu. Eds. Vaughan Rapatahana & Kiri Piahana-Wong. New Zealand: Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2023. 398.